I have a laptop which originally came with 98 and was
later upgraded to XP. I had to re-install XP because of a
missing file problem and now don't have the virtual
machine for Java. The XP release notes say you have to

An error has been detected and windows has been shutdown
to prevent damage to your computer.
irq_not_less_or_equal
If this is the first........

I am trying to run a script in which a command (like net
start <service_name> ) requires a wait of 15 seconds
before the execution of the next command in the script.
Can some one please suggest a way of doing this. These

I am upgrading from ME - XP Home Edition on my PC. The
install procedes to the same point each time I try it
before I get a blue screen with an error message "ERROR
OE:0028: DD436F00". I tried to query both the ME and XP

I have created a Winnt.sif file for an unattended XP pro
install.
I would like to know the syntax for completely formatting
the hard as NTFS and installing XP like it was a new drive.

Dear Friends,
1) I bought a DELL DIMENSION 8300. Specs as follow:
Harddisk = 120GB Serial ATA (SATA).
- 1st partition (40G) = WinXP

I received a computer system for my birthday.  They
installed XP Home into my computer.  Now I get a message
on the right bottom corner of the screen, asking me to
update.  Well it asks for a LONG number code.  The problem

I have a school computer lab with 24 networked computers (no internet
connection). 1 is runnng W2K Pro, 4 are running WIN XP Pro and the rest are
running WIN98 SE. I've pointed all the My Documents folders on all machines
to one of the XP Pro machines so that all students use it as ...

I have a home office set-up where I run 3 systems...1
laptop with XP PRO and 2 desktops (1 celeron with '98, and
the main desktop.)  I am currently running 98 on the main
desktop, but it is slow, and I am going to upgrade to a

we just installed the microsoft professional to a second
computer, we went to activate it but microsoft said we
could not do that, so we want to go back to the original
home edition, how do we do that. our comuter came withe

I am currently building a second pc system for my kids (
to stop them blowing up mine! ) Can I use the OEM version
of XP as this is half the price of the full version. I
already have XP installed in this machine (Packard Bell i-

I am setting up a lab of 18 PC's running XP Pro. It is a
school lab for K thru 8th grade. Each PC will be set up to
support a grade as an individual user.  I.E. 1st grade
will be login as 1 and password as "read".  Each grade

My DC/DVD player on XP takes a long time to access and when I want to remove
it , it takes about 1.5 minutes to eject. When I used 98 I could left click
and get access or eject straight away. I looked at properties and there is
no way I can disable auto start. Am I missing ...

I need to be able to clear the last logged on username from the logon box.
Tried Tweakui but nothing there.  Any suggestions?
Also is there a way to remove the local computer logon option ie only allow
the user to choose the domain login at the login screen

My computer arrived yesterday; I set it up and it looked
okay, but now I can barely read the screen.  I don't
think anything is wrong, I just need to know where the
setting is to make this better.  I already went into the